Protests in Egypt

The British embassy in Cairo said on Dec. 15 it has resumed services to the public, nine days after they were suspended over security concerns about the mission's main building.
      
The Canadian embassy next to the British embassy, which also suspended services, remains shut to the public.
      

Egypt has imposed restrictions on male citizens traveling to Turkey and war-torn Libya to stop them joining jihadist organizations like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a security official said Dec. 10.

Egypt's ousted leader Mohamed Morsi has unveiled details about his location in the wake of last year's ouster

Egypt's ousted leader Mohamed Morsi has unveiled details about his location in the wake of last year's ouster by the military during a court hearing into alleged espionage charges on Dec. 6.

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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said Egypt will never return to the past and is charting a new future, after a court dismissed murder charges against former leader Hosni Mubarak.

A Cairo court on Nov. 29 dropped the charges over the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended three decades of autocratic Mubarak rule.

A court in Egypt has dropped the case against former President Hosni Mubarak of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising against him, reports BBC.

He was also cleared of a corruption charge involving gas exports to Israel.

Mubarak, 86, is serving a separate three-year sentence for embezzlement of public funds.

More than 80 people have been arrested in the St Louis county, US, over burglary and trespassing in the last hours after a court ruling sparked unrest across the region.

Sixty-one of those detained were in Ferguson, where the teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in August.

Egyptian police on Nov. 20 arrested Mohamed Ali Bishr, one of the few Muslim Brotherhood leaders to escape jail after last year's overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, in the latest sign of a crackdown on political dissent.

Bishr, a veteran politician who served as a cabinet minister under Mursi, was accused of calling for mass protests on Nov. 28, state media said.

The Greek Police has launched an administrative inquiry into allegations that riot officers used violence against two accredited journalists during clashes that broke out between police and protesters in the downtown Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia on Monday in the aftermath of a large rally marking the November 17, 1973, student uprising against the military dictatorship.

Protesters demanding a halt of the construction of a small mosque next to a protected grove on the Asian side of Istanbul, in line with a court order, resorted to an unprecedented action on Oct. 27, in a bid to hamper the access of trucks and heavy duty vehicles to the site.  

An Egyptian court ordered prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah back to jail Monday after he was previously freed on bail during a trial for taking part in an illegal protest, a relative said.